Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real  possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

 Aristlotle 384-322 B.C. -Greek Philosopher

I have and always will pay the full social price for being true to my Self while ignoring social convention.  But my life could be bearable no other way.  I have no regrets in this regard. (Sharon Grossman)

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost. (May Sarton)

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.  The fearful are caught as often as the bold. (Helen Keller)

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. (Helen Keller)

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live. (Anais Nin)

When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.  It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at our selves. (Katherine Mansfield)

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! (Jane Austen)

I’ll not listen to reason.  Reason always means what someone else has got to say. (Elizabeth Gaskell)

If I’m too strong for some people, that’s their problem. (Glenda Jackson)

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive.  There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. (Mary Ann Evans)

All we’re ever looking for is another open door. (Kate Bush)

In real love you want the other person’s good.  In romantic love, you want the other person. (Margaret Anderson)

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person.  They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them.  You cheapen them, the inside of yourself when you tell them. (Greta Garbo)

I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do. (Georgia O’Keefe)

A person who walks in another’s track leaves no footprints. (Unknown)

Eagles don’t flock – you have to find them one at a time. (H. Ross Perot)

Don’t wait for your ship to come in; swim out to it. (Unknown)
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. (Thomas Edison)

Don’t be afraid to take a big step.  You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. (Unknown)

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. (Andre Gilde)

The successful people of this world take life as it comes…they just go out and deal with the world as it is. (Ben Stein)

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. (Oliver Goldsmith)

We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. (Unknown)

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.

Experience is what you get just after you need it.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.

Always remember you are unique, just like everyone else.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul   (Martha Graham)

“The Coming of Wisdom With Time”

Though leaves are many, the root is one;
Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.
(William Butler Yeats)

Let passion be your muse, the authentic decorator.
Let her guide and teach you to trust your instincts.
Aspire to live surrounded only by those things that you
passionately love.
Be patient:  a magnum opus can take a lifetime to create.
(Unknown)

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is
no hurt, only more love.
(Mother Teresa)

If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain,
‘Move from here to there’ and it will move.  Nothing will be impossible for you.
(Matthew 17:20)

Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love (New York: Harper Collins, 1992)

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous --

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people

Won't fear insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

It is not just in some of us: it is in everyone,

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously

Give other people permission to do the same. “

Bring me all of your dreams,
you dreamers,
Bring me all of your heart melodies,
that i may wrap them in a blue cloud cloth,
Away from the two rough fingers of the world.

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."
-- Deepak Chopra

"to imagine is to begin the process that transforms reality"
b. hooks

Chief Seattle, 1855
Humankind has not woven the web of life.  We are but one thread within it.  Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.  All things are bound
together.  All things connected.
 

Mahatma Ghandi
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
 

Albert Einstein
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thought and feelings as
something separated from the best, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.  This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us
to our personal desires and the affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle
of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its locality.

Eustace Haydon
The Humanist rarely loses the feeling of at-homeness in the universe. The Humanist is conscious of being an earth-child. There is a mystic glow in this sense of belonging. Memories of one's long ancestry still linger in muscle and nerve, in brain and germ cell. On moonlit nights, in the
renewal of life in the springtime, before the glory of a sunset, in moments of swift insight, people feel the community of their own physical
being with the body of mother earth. Rooted in millions of years of planetary history, the earthling has a secure feeling of being at home,
and a consciousness of pride and dignity as a bearer of the heritage of the ages.
 

John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.  Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.  The winds will blow their own
freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where non intruders,  By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man less, but Nature more.